Pronycticebus

Pronycticebus Temporal range: Early–Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Strepsirrhini
Family:	† Notharctidae
Subfamily:	† Cercamoniinae
Genus:	† Pronycticebus G. Grandidier, 1904
Type species
†Pronycticebus gaudryi G. Grandidier, 1904
Species
P. gaudryi

Pronycticebus was a genus of adapiform primates that lived during the early to middle Eocene. It is represented by Pronycticebus gaudryi, from the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France. ^[1] A second species, P. neglectus, ^[2] was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000. ^[3]

References

1. Gebo 2002, pp. 28–29.
2. Thalmann, Urs; Haubold, Hartmut; Martin, Robert Denis (1989). "Pronycticebus neglectus - an almost complete Adapid primate specimen from the Geiseltal (GDR)". Palaeovertebrata. 19 (3): 115–130.
3. Franzen, Jens Lorenz (2000). "Der sechste Messel-Primate (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae, Cercamoniinae)" . Senckenbergiana Lethaea (in German). 80 (1): 289–303. doi:10.1007/BF03043673. ISSN   0037-2110.

• Conroy, G.C. 1990. Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co.: New York.
• Martin, R.D. 1990. Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
• "Pronycticebus neglectus". members.tripod.com. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
• http://www.aim.unizh.ch/StaffofInstitute/AffResearchers/uthal/Publications.html%5B%5D
• Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Literature cited

• Gebo, D.L. (2002). "Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation". In Hartwig, W.C. (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-08141-2. OCLC   47254191.
• Fleagle, J.G. (1998). Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-080-49213-1. OCLC   40543995.